What is a rare collie color?

What is a rare collie color?

Last updated Dec. 23, 2024 – Written by M Hasnain Ashraf

What is a rare collie color?

A scarce Collie color is the blue merle, one of Collies’s striking and seldom-seen color combinations. Blue merle Collies possess a mottled coat of blue-gray and black, often with white markings and sometimes tan points. Such highly unique coloring results from the merle gene, which affects the pigment in the dog’s coat, thus giving the “blue” appearance.

Other rare Collie colors are

Sable merle: Like the blue merle, but with the base color in sable instead of black.

White Collie: Essentially white with patches of sable, tricolor, or blue merle on the head or body. Thus, this is instead a rare color variant.

These colors are less frequent as they are as lovely and of the same loyal, intelligent temperament as the more frequently seen sable and tricolor Collie.